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Elephants sleep for just 2 hours a day – the least of any mammal
The sleep patterns of wild elephants have been remotely monitored for the first time, revealing they get by with little kip
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The feeling you get when nails scratch a blackboard has a name
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Bees learn to play golf and show off how clever they really are
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Resurrecting nature: Extinct is not forever
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Does a networked world need a new approach to doing good?
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Big builder ants and tiny guard ants live together in one nest
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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material
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Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so
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Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome
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Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down
Videos reveal that the cock-eyed squid’s two contrasting eyes are adapted for entirely different hunting purposes
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New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride
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Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline
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Synchronised swimming seems to make dolphins more optimistic
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Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish
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